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NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
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 Nasher Reads: The Secret Game
Tuesday, March 6, 2 PM
Celebrate March in North Carolina by reading The Secret Game by Scott Ellsworth, the story of the unsanctioned 1944 basketball game between Duke and North Carolina Central University. The museum staff-led conversation will take place within the exhibition Courtside: Photographs by Bill Bamberger.
  PARLIAMENT at Duke
FOUR DAYS! Wednesday, March 7, through Saturday, March 10 Visitors are invited to step into PARLIAMENT at Duke: A Pioneering Work of Situational Choreography, by Michael Kliën of Duke’s Dance Program. Drop by the gallery to become a part of the work. Participants are forming a sort of communion through silence, movement and awareness. Kliën has presented versions of PARLIAMENT in Amsterdam, Greece, Brussels, London and New York.
Performances: Wednesday, March 7, 10 AM–5 PM Thursday, March 8, 10 AM–4 PM Friday, March 9, 10 AM–5 PM d Saturday, March 10, 10 AM–5 PM Panel Discussion: Thursday, March 8, 7 PM When we interrupt and peel away most all norms and conventions, what is left of us? Join us for a cross-disciplinary panel exploring the essential dynamics of human interaction, in light of the experience of PARLIAMENT. More details.  Art with the Experts at Durham South Regional Library Branch
Monday, March 12, 7 PM Join us at Durham County Library’s South Regional Library Branch, 4505 S. Alston Ave., Durham. Photographer Bill Bamberger will give a free discussion and slide lecture of his work in the exhibition Courtside: Photographs by Bill Bamberger.
 Sketching in the Galleries
Saturday, March 17, 10:15 AM–12:15 PM Explore your artistic side through an informal sketching program held on the third Saturday of each month. Durham artist Rachel Goodwin will lead this program, which begins with a brief demonstration of ways to respond to art by drawing. Participants then move through the galleries to continue sketching. Free with general admission.
 Upcoming tours
Thursday, March 8, 6 PM
Nasher Gallery Guide Peggy Murray explores ways that artists connect their personal identities to their work in Solidary & Solitary. Saturday, March 10, 11 AM Slow Art Tour. Enjoy art at a different pace. Join gallery guide Meg Williams for an extended conversation about a single work of art within the exhibition Solidary & Solitary. Sunday, March 4, 2 PM Nasher Gallery Guide Kate Newman’s tour will focus on how Solidary & Solitary broadens the monolithic narrative of art history.  Free Family Day: Art of Science & Science of Art
Sunday, March 18, Noon–4:30PM
The Nasher Museum partners with Sarah P. Duke Gardens and the Duke Chemistry Society to explore the crossover between art and science as we create artistic chemical reactions and investigate the beautiful designs found in nature.
Get wowed by Nasher Family Day favorite magician Joshua Lozoff as he does close-up magic in the Great Hall and performs a stage show in the lecture hall! Free Family Days at the Nasher Museum are supported by The Forest at Duke. 
Sketch courtesy Rachel Goodwin. Photos by J Caldwell. Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection is presented by The Helis Foundation and organized by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and The Baltimore Museum of Art. 
Contributing sponsorship is provided by The Lambent Foundation and The Holt Family Foundation. At the Nasher Museum, this exhibition is made possible by the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Fund for Exhibitions; Ann Chanler and Andrew Scheman; Katie Thorpe Kerr and Terrance I. R. Kerr; Lisa Lowenthal Pruzan and Jonathan Pruzan; and Gail Belvett. Nasher Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the late Mary D.B.T. Semans and James H. Semans, the late Frank E. Hanscom III, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the Courtney Shives Art Museum Fund, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the Janine and J. Tomilson Hill Family Fund, the Trent A. Carmichael Fund for Community Education, the Neely Family Fund, the E. T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Fund for the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Marilyn M. Arthur Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the George W. and Viola Mitchell Fearnside Endowment Fund, the Gibby and Michael B. Waitzkin Fund, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the Victor and Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, the Nasher Museum of Art General Endowment, the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art, and the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University. The Collection Galleries is made possible by Nasher Annual Fund donors with special support from Anita and John Schwarz. 2001 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27705 (Map) | nasher.duke.edu | 919-684-5135 Visit Exhibitions Calendar Café Join Support © 2000-2018 Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Unauthorized use is prohibited |